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Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific

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By Felix Speiser
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The narrative collects travel sketches and ethnographic observations from an extended stay among island communities in the western Pacific. It moves island to island, describing landscapes—coral lagoons, volcanic peaks, and forests—daily life, rituals, music, tattooing, ancestor houses, and subsistence practices, as well as encounters with plantation settlements, missionaries, and colonial residents. Vivid vignettes alternate with practical ethnological notes and photographic illustrations, conveying impressions of hospitality, hardship, and cultural complexity while tracing regional variations in customs, ceremonies, and material culture.

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Published in 1913. Felix Speiser was born 20 Oct. 1880, and died 19 Sept. 1949 in Basel, Switzerland.

An abbreviated Dutch translation of this book appeared in the Dutch magazine De Aarde en haar Volken in 1917 and 1918. This is available from Project Gutenberg in two parts as ebooks number 24649 (part I) and 18023 (part II).

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